Posted on 05/06/2011 5:44:51 AM PDT by Cardhu
An independent review says medical care remains below acceptable
levels in more than two-thirds of California state prisons.
The review shows just nine of the 33 adult prisons met minimum health care standards.
The review is the first independent look at all the facilities in the state's prison system.
It was ordered after a federal judge found that poor care was causing the death of an average of one inmate each week.
The review comes as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a ruling to force California to improve the care of physically and mentally ill inmates.
Mark Kleiman is a public policy professor at the University of California Los Angeles.
Kleiman says over the past 20 years the state's inmate population has nearly tripled.
He says the U-S Supreme Court became involved when the overcrowding became too deadly to ignore.
The federal court is expected to issue it's final ruling next month.
In the meantime, state lawmakers want to put more money into the prison system to improve health standards.
But the state is already spending nearly 50-thousand dollars annually on each inmate and taxpayers are hesitate to see that number rise.
In fact, since 1990, California's state prison spending grew 25 times faster than state spending on higher education.
Currently the state pays less than 10-thousand dollars per student.
For their part, state lawmakers are attempting to handle the prison crisis before the federal court steps in.
California Governor Jerry Brown wants ease overcrowding by transferring tens of thousands of non-violent criminals to county jails.
But many of those facilities are already at capacity and will be unable to take in as many inmates as Governor Brown would like.
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HIV is catching...and it’s a killer!!
To be filed under “who cares.”
Waaahh.
In South America, inmates are responsible for their own FOOD. Here they get sex-changes, on We the Taxpayers. While they are doing time for predatory behavior on We the Taxpayers.
Isn’t it supposed to make sense?
And...am I REALLY supposed to give a rip about this???
Well, one way to avoid all that is to stay the hell out of prison. And since whatever they get is “free,” shut up.
Suggestion:
1)Deport the Illegals who are criminals
2)Actually secure the border
3)Problem solved!
Currently the state pays less than 10-thousand dollars per student.
Well DUH!! The “state” education system doesn’t feed, clothe, house, and provide medical care for them 24 hours a day.
And I’m supposed to be sorry for those subhumans???
When you combine State, local, and Federal money, it's over $13,000 per student. It's a pack of lies.
So this article is saying that Government controlled health care provides sub-standard medical care?
Who would have ever thought that could occur.
And some wonder why so many are opposed to ObamaCare.
How bout they stop committing crimes...that will keep them out of the prison health system LOL
The fraud, waste and abuse that is rampant within the CA penal system is a huge part of this problem as well.
Doctors and nurses billing a minimum of 4 hrs to come in (for less than 4 hrs) or answer a phone call is pure BS!
They just took down a shift supervisor in one of the prisons who was getting kickbacks from the mexican mafia. A female guard was forced to resign for having sex with prisoners and violating regulations. (they would have fired her, but they couldn’t pull enough together, so they bluffed her out.)
And to top it all off, moonbeam just sweetened the deal even more with the new contract. What a state!
And I note, that they never qualified what they meant when they said “standards”.
What “standards” are they trying to meet here?
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